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Today on north korea. also on russia, which, of course, was one of his areas of strength coming into this office, coming out of the business sector. but the oil patch, knowing vladimir putin, knowing russia as well as he does, he said that the relationship, as he told vladimir putin back in april, when he was visiting moscow, that the relationship is as bad as its been since the cold war and, he said, now, as he has said to the foreign minister, sergey lavrov, its even gotten worse. worse, of co...

Revisions for march and april as well. job creation over the past three months has slowed a little bit from prior years. where is the action? you can see manufacturing lost a thousand jobs. in mining there were 7,000 jobs created. this includes the oil patch where we tease apart these numbers we see 400 coal mining jobs added and of course that is a focus of president trumps job creation strategy. so watching the coal mining and the mining section in particular but really watching health care. 2...

On the united states services, the united states software so. this could back fire in economic ways that im not sure anybody has really thought through. >> i appreciate you bringing that up. ted cruz has written an opinion piece saying america should withdraw from the paris agreement. his arguments are not dissimilar to the one donald trump has made. and fundamentally, they do sort of go to the argument that it kills jobs and creates unnecessary regulation that hampers profitability. how do you ...

These two sides together. now you have an aging weak palestinian leader and a historically maybe not strong politically but adept politically prime minister of isreal who has managed to out flank all of his challenges and opponents. hard to imagine. i was really struck by something. you know this region so well. ive visited it for decades. my first assignment at nbc news was covering the camp david accords back in 1978 and 1979. and i know its before many of you were born. something that comes w...

Adding 55,000 jobs. that tells you consumers are out there having fun, using their disposable income. theyre hiring in amusement rks and places like that. you have the retail sector, really doing badly coming back a little bit. another sector im interested in, youve seen oil prices kind of stabilize a bit. down recently. you had a good devastation in the oil patch in the country. now up again 9,000, three months in a row youve had the mining coming back, as well. government was up a little bit. ...

Going to take to get something like tax reform through congress and become a reality, but you are starting to hear about increased spending. the oil patch is a great example of that as weve seen oil prices begin to come back and trade above $50 a barrel and with all these prospective policy changes youre seeing companies saying that theyre going to be spending a lot more on capitol hill expenditures this year moving forward. >> how about healthcare, the one sector that had been sluggish along th...

Oil patch or who work there, good news. take a look at a couple of companies that do business in the dakotas. where do we go from here? we talked to our friends at gasbuddy.com who tell us 20% to 40% or 40 cents more in the coming year in terms of a rise in gas prices. not a dramatic increase, but a little bit of the dividend we got this year, maybe not so much next year. >> jeff flock, thank you for updating us. the head of an agency supports say is designed to protect syou is under scrutiny....

Opposed to minimum wage. >> i think the biggest advocate will be the president-elect. >> but hes against it. >> hes really not against it. he says he wants to make it a state-by-state decision. hes told people -- >> the minimum wage? >> yes. hes told people on this network and other networks that it should be higher than it is now. but what he doesnt want to do is have a one-size-fits-all for all 50 states. >> what about this guy, pruitt, the ag down in oklahoma for the oil patch. this is the en...

Efforts to counter climate change. in may pru pl pruitt wrote climate warming has inspired one of the major political debates that is far from settled. pruitt will head the very organization hes currently suing. im joined by eric lipton and eric, let me go to you. is he currently in litigation? >> he has quite a few lawsuits pending. he believes in states rights and the states should have the privilege to make their own determination. >> and up to in the oil patch, they believe that she they sho...

Things like the fed. when will the fed raise interest rates? it looks like chances every day are rising that the fed will raise interest rates in december. and then there are earnings in the near term to get through, carol, banks have been a little bit better on the earnings front than we had feared. but youre going to see hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for companies as they report their earnings in the oil patch. so well be watching oil, well be watching fed guessing. and we will be ...